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>>8037659

Depressing! I laid out a binary combination of all the 64th's from 0/64 - 63/64, and went hunting through the table. This is maybe about 90% accurate but even I gave up after a time, too tedious, no discernable pattern. MANY entries are double-counted, and then sometimes variously expressed in different Egyptian fractions. The only relevant columns here are the "Present?" columns with some entry from P.81 in dark green.

I had hoped to establish that the table at least lists all combinations with "3" (6 choose 3) terms, "2" (6 choose 2) terms etc, but those aren't even true. Just a smattering of information.

Just to give this its due diligence, I'm just going to pick two that look juicy and spot-check, then move on.

1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 hekat is 8 + 1/2 + 1/4 hinu (multiply by 10), yep, and

( (1/2 + 1/8 + 1/32) hekat plus (3 + 1/3) ro ) = (6 + 2/3) hinu (Yep, do conversions per above). The former quantity was of interest because it's exactly 2/3 hekat.

82-84, which include the final "B" problem ,82B, apparently involve giving animals certain amounts of feed, and are messes in their own right.